Online Voting

Online Voting: Good or Bad? E-voting does exist in various forms throughout the world — from electronic vote-counting of paper ballots, to actual, digital-display ballot machines — but bona fide, entirely-digital systems are incredibly rare. A handful of countries have experimented with remote, internet-based voting for expatriates and armed forces, but the only country to ever hold a fully-digital election — where anyone in the country could vote via the internet — is Estonia, which started in 2007. In 2011, 15% of Estonia’s population voted via the internet. Why is internet voting so slow to take off? Security is one aspect — after 100 years of refining the paper-and-pen approach, it’s understandable that some states would be apprehensive about switching to that terrifying, publicly-owned entity that is the internet — but as Estonia has shown, with ID cards that also act as public key encryption smart cards, it’s possible to create a secure internet voting platform.
There are also valid concerns about hardware and software tampering — a man-in-the-middle attack somewhere between the voting terminal (be it at home or at a polling station) and the end point where tabulation occurs — but these can be ameliorated by instigating a chain of custody and public, open inspection of the systems used. In short, it’s not like the US lack the ability or technology to run a secure, internet-based election. Just imagine what would happen if suddenly everyone with an internet connection — anyone with a smartphone — could vote. Heck, why not go the whole hog and enable voting by SMS? On election day, just open up an app on your phone and cast a vote; it would take 30 seconds, tops. The entire landscape of voting would change overnight.
For some 40 years, voter turnout has decreased across the Western world — and almost exclusively in younger generations. The decline isn’t fully…...

...RE-REGISTER: If you have moved since you last registered to vote, wish to change your party registration, or have changed your name, you need to re-register as soon as possible. You must register by October 22, 2012 to be able to vote in the November 6, 2012 Presidential General Election. WHERE TO OBTAIN A VOTER REGISTRATION FORM: Anyone who is eligible to register to vote in California can use the new California Online Voter Registration system. You can find the online process at the Registrar of Voters website at www.sdvote.com. Click on Register to Vote and follow the instructions. Voter registration cards are also available and can be found at Post Offices, Department of Motor Vehicles offices, Library buildings, various City Clerk offices, and the Registrar of Voters office. NOTE: You can check the status of your registration by visiting www.sdvote.com. Follow the prompts to verify your voter registration. VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT
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PERMANENT VOTE BY MAIL VOTER: If you are currently a vote by mail voter, you will automatically receive your mail ballot. To confirm your voting status and see your polling location, review the colored mailing label on the back cover of this pamphlet. If the label indicates you are a permanent mail ballot voter, please do not reapply --- we begin mailing the vote by mail ballots on October 9, 2012. If you do not receive th your ballot by October 18 , please call the Registrar of Voters office at 858-565-5800. TO VOTE BY MAIL FOR THIS......

...Voters in the United States don’t seem to do such a great job of showing up to vote, which is especially true when it’s time for the presidential election. Hard to believe that only a little bit more than half of eligible voters in this country actually participate in voting in the presidential elections. This seems preposterous, especially when you consider that voting plays a major part in our government. I mean, what’s a democracy without the right to vote? But sadly, a plethora of Americans don’t take advantage of that right. In my opinion, at least two causes contribute to this dilemma: people feeling disconnected from a government that seems too impersonal to them, and/or people getting tired of the mudslinging in politics.
As government has grown in size and complexity, many people see less need for their participation. “Why should I vote if I can’t affect the political process?” seems to be the view taken by many people who do not vote. They have heard again and again that every vote counts, that their vote counts, but they just don’t believe it. Human beings also have the capability of being just plain lazy. To those who use this as an excuse, it’s too much trouble to register to vote and then actually go to the polls on election day.
The second cause of voter apathy in my opinion, is all the mudslinging present in politics today. When one candidate says something about their opponent’s personal life, it makes people wonder what kind of person would make such......

...Should the voting age be raised from 18 to 21?
At the moment the U.S. government is exactly thinking about this alteration.
The discussion came up; right after Barack Obama was elected to be the new president of the U.S.A.
Members of the opposite party argued that too many young people, without the required education and knowledge would have voted for him.
They´ve been supported by others, who are arguing, that younger people are just representing the opinions of their parents ,that they are influenced by their historical backgrounds or that they just vote like their favorite actor or singer.
In my opinion a rising of the voting age from 18 to 21 is unnecessary and I believe that it wouldn´t bring the expected change.
People, especially their political attitude, develop independently and it is not possible to fix an age when people should be able to make the right decision.
Some teenagers at an age of 15 already have a set opinion and others at an age of 23 still don´t feel able to vote.
It isn´t important how old somebody is, it is even more urgent if somebody is interested in politics and if he or she informs itself about the latest news and topics.
In addition young adults often are even more coined by their friends, their environment and the Medias than by their parents.
Also if you are 18 there is no bondage to vote. If you don´t feel comfortable enough to make such an important decision, you can also decide to wait a few more years, until you have a......

...Researching Online Voting System Global Stories Information Technology Essay
Global Success Stories
During this research of online voting system, we have selected two voting system for global success stories. First system is the Maryland voting system and second system is the vote system in Monash University Gippsland Student Union. The following section provides the background information of these systems and the highlight of system function. The highlight of system function will be further considerable in our proposed voting system.
Maryland voting system
In 2001, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law that required the State Board of Elections. A Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting system as the statewide voting system for polling place voting. The DRE voting system was selected because it offers many advantages over other voting system.
Function highlights
Eliminate issue of voter intent
Prevent “overvotes”
Provide voter with a summary of selection before casting a ballot
Allow most voters with disabilities to vote a secret ballot
Accommodate multiple languages
Easy to use
In 2006, a research report of public opinion poll by the University of Maryland, that show the Maryland voters are very satisfied with this touchscreen voting system. 92% of voters who voted in the 2004 General Election had a positive experience voting on this system. Below table show the statistic report of your experience:
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Registered voted though the voting system was easy......

...Enter the Age of Internet Voting
Voting has changed drastically since the beginning of humanity. Some of these changes have been for the better, and others have been fraudulent. The first form of voting originated in Ancient Athens where Greeks would use small balls to vote. A white ball would be cast in favor of a candidate or a topic and a black ball would be cast to vote against someone or something. This is where the term black balled came from (Glenco). Then a couple thousand or so years later came paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optical scans, and touch screens. The three most well known ways of voting are by optical scanners, punch cards, and touch screens. In which touch-screens are the most dominant in America Today. There have been major incidents with all of these machines that have caused doubt about whether the results are truly accurate or a miscalculation. The best way to solve this problem is to no longer use any by optical scanners, punch cards, or touch screens and make voting possible online. Internet voting seems like the most logical answer to the current problems faced by these machines and punch cards. It is also possible to have internet voting while ensuring that the votes are accurate. New voting technologies tend to emerge out of crises of confidence as seen prominently in the 2000 presidential election. We only rarely change systems and in response to a public anxiety that electoral results can no longer be trusted.
There have...

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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Introduction Now more than ever, technology is changing on how we vote. Voting schemes have evolved from counting hands on early days to systems that includes papers, punch cards, mechanical levers and optical machines. Electronic voting systems provide some characteristic different from the traditional voting technique. As an effect of vast change in modern technology, several techniques in voting arises in order to solve various drawbacks like time consuming and large volume of paper works can be consumed. So the solutions are televoting, android phone voting and web voting. Televoting was also known as voting via SMS text messages. Mobile phone connects through GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in which it searches for cells in the immediate vicinity. Televoting uses a format in which the public viewer follows and replies error whenever they send an invalid format. Like in a real television shows, televoting was a very common method that opens the public to vote its favorite contestant to remain and not to be evicted. The outcome will be decided by the number of votes in which a contestant garners. On the other hand, android phone voting and web voting has this similarity. Both use an internet in order to gain access and make vote counts. In web voting, it uses a browser to view the page and users just simply browse, follow some steps and vote, and if successful, the vote is counted. The most common method before a user...

...Citizens express their views by voting for representatives to speak on their behalf or by joining interest groups. In our current voting system however, many groups of people are barred from voting, yet they are forced to abide to the laws passed by our government. Whether it is because they are undocumented immigrants, felons, or even because their state requires tests that they are incapable of passing, these people are being unfairly represented in our government. Although our constitution provides the framework for our voting system, it leaves the right to the states to establish who is able to vote and who isn’t. In order to prevent this inequality in the voting process, states should be required to share the same voting requirements and it should be easier for immigrants to gain their citizenship so they as well can have a say in government.
The American constitution established the framework of the voting system that we use today in our modern society. Voting first started in 1776, during the time of the colonies and the revolution and only white male Protestants were able to vote. At the time when George Washington was elected President, only 6% of the current population was eligible to vote, so voting was very restricted. In 1866 the Civil Rights Act granted citizenship to all American born people. However, it did not mention that all citizens had the right to vote, it left that to be decided by the states. While some states have easier voting restrictions,......

...make president too weak or to strong; everything depends on how the president uses his formal and informal powers. It could make him strong and powerful as it happened with President Reagan, or it could weaken president’s power and fail his goals.
Voting and elections are important aspects of American democracy, but not everyone chooses to participate by voting. Why are some people more likely to vote than others? Once someone decides to vote, what factors are most likely to influence their vote choice?
Voting and election are at the very core of democracy because it is an important form of direct participation by citizens in different aspects of national decisions. People vote for the decision-makers who they think will represent them and make changes that everybody is waiting for. However, today we can see the trend that not everyone chooses to vote. There are several reasons why some people more likely to vote than others and factors that influence their vote choice such as people’s preference and background, economic and political condition, and candidates’ value and goals. In my paper, I will talk about the reason why some people more likely to vote than others and factors, which influence their decisions.
Voting is an optional political participation. Citizen can choose who will represent their value. However, studies show that even a strong preference between two candidates may not drive people to vote. The most citizen are uninterested in the details of......

...CHAPTER 2
FOREIGN LITERATURE
“Electronic Voting Literature”
Voting on the internet using PC's everyday offers only weak security, but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. The Presidential elections of 2000 brought national attention to problems with current American methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made.
Dr. Michael Shamos of CMU provides a sharp counterpoint [6] to Neumann and Mercuri's views. While his “Six Commandments” summary of requirements for a voting system is very similar to others' requirements, he's less afraid of the catastrophic failures and sweeping fraud made possible by imperfections in electronic voting machines actually occurring in a real election. Shamos is also much less impressed with paper ballots than are Neumann and Mercuri. He places a great deal of faith in decentralization to make fraud difficult to commit and easy to detect. Dr. Shamos even likes DRE machines. (We must take into account the fact that this paper was written ten years ago, long before the 2000 elections and before more modern mathematical results like Chaum's; some of Dr. Shamos' opinions may have changed since then. While Dr. Neumann's talk cited here is of similar age, his pessimism with regard to machines has had little reason for change.)
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...should vote. Students don't realize how important their vote would be if they voted. This generation fails to realize the impact they would have on the world if they would take the time out to cast a ballot. College students should vote because we have the right to do so, our vote matters, and we should have input in our future.
College students should vote because we have the right to do so. The importance of our future lies within voting. We should use this right to our full advantage. Not using this right shows disrespect to those who fought for us to have the right to vote. Without this right, college students wouldn't be where they are today.
Another reason why college students should vote is because our vote matters. Politicians focus on college student numbers when we request any concern. If a low ratio of students cast a ballot , the lower the feedback will be for that concern. Politicians also focus on college student voting statistics because we are the ones who will be living amongst the changes that will be put in place. The voting age was lowered for a reason. That reason is to give the younger generations a chance for their voice to be heard.
Last, but not least college students should vote because we should have input in our future. No one wants a future someone else has planned for them. To vote is to voice your opinion. Voicing your opinion will lead to the type of future you want. If a great number of college students put in a vote the leaders of this......

...Aim:
The motto of the project is to build an enterprise site, which should be able to allow people to cast their vote online.
SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Existing System
Remote voting is exercise into two different ways.
1.proxy voting
The person who is unable to be physically present authorized other person on behalf of him.
2. close envelope ballet
In this the person cast is voter, enclosed in an envelope and post to register post. The problem with this system is that not always the ballets are riched in time. The proxy person may exercise other ballet then the one synthezised the person.
Proposed System
In propose system remote and user’s can exercise .There voter within any favour using this system any level of voting like ,lokha sab voting,rajya sab voting etc. In the proposed system we can get the result without manually counting.The computerized counting is simple and we can access any information of any party.
Advantage of the proposed system
1. Time saving
2. Working load reduced to a large extent
3. Less prone to errors
4. Information available at time
5. Man power reduced
6. Many tasks are automated
7. It also provide security for the data
Modules description
1. Election commissioner: It check about the user details like id proof and no proxy voting cannot be done. This is election commissioner home page .
2.Generate voter id:It check details like......

...The importance of voting
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“Your vote is your voice as an American citizen. It's your opportunity to be heard, to hold elected officials accountable for their elections and to have a say in important issues that affect your community. On Election Day, every vote matters”. Anonymous
Introduction
Election Day is a standout amongst the most energizing days of the year. Our country meets up to choose a leader who will speak to us on the worldwide stage for the following four years. We will choose a leader that will remain for our rights as natives, students, representatives and businesses. We will choose a leader that will ideally stay faithful to their obligations. It is a major choice, and this race denotes an important point in our country's history. As of now, there are two extremely particular ways our nation will look over and it is more essential than any other time in recent memory to make a choice in this race. I wish I could vote, and in the event that you were not anticipating heading off to the surveys this race, let me offer you some assistance with reversing that choice.
Every year, numerous students like you turn 18 and cast their first poll on Election Day, satisfying the most fundamental activity in a vote based society. Voting is a basic process that keeps our arrangement of government working. Through races, subjects can choose who speaks to them in government, be it a nearby authority, a state or......

...to be on the electoral roll and to vote at federal and state elections for all citizens over eighteen years of age. However, it has not always been the case. At the beginning of the 20th century most men and women were eligible to vote except for indigenous people who were excluded. Following poor voter turnout in a previous election, compulsory voting was introduced in 1924. In 1962 Indigenous people gained the right to vote and it was made compulsory for them in 1984. In 1973 the voting age was changed from twenty-one to eighteen (Skwirk , 2014). The following discussion will argue that the benefits of compulsory voting far outweigh the disadvantages.
In our society we have certain obligations like paying taxes, compulsory education and jury duty. Compulsory voting is just another civic duty much less onerous than any of the above. Australia is one of only eleven countries to enforce participation in elections. A 94% voter turnout for the last federal election compared favourably to 65% in the 2010 United Kingdom election and 57% in the 2012 United States presidential election (Padmanabhan, 2015). The argument that compulsory voting is incompatible with democratic government obviously does not apply to Australia that is considered one of the most transparent, representative and least corrupt nations of the world (White, 2013). The whole point of freedom is that everyone has a say and a responsibility to voice their opinion. Fifty per cent or less voter turnout is not a......

...ABSTRACT
This report presents a proposal for an Online voting system for Imo State University.”ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM” is a voting technique which contains rules for valid voting and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result. Voting involves counting which means it’s algorithmic in nature. This is an important area for development because the opinions of the students are pivotal to the future of the university, and such a system can increase awareness of important matters. However, it is still questionable whether elections could be conducted online due to the high level of concern over security and even accessibility of internet and other IT infrastructures.
The aim of this project is to develop an interactive voting system with which users can participate using internet enabled computers. Online voting would be more convenient, relatively secure and utilize fewer resources. This project will be useful in two ways. It will provide an easier system for the school Student Union Government (S.U.G) than the traditional voting system and it will also help me improve my experience and knowledge of web technologies. HTML, My SQL and Java Programming Language will be used to create the Online Voting System.
Project Functions and Goals
• User login system and secure administrator login system.
• User registration system into the database.
• The polling or voting interface proper.
• Add/delete polls under administration privilege.
• E-mail system may be......